I had to make _some_ estimate." "What lovely dishes!" said Diantha.
"Aren't they! Aluminum, silvered! If your washers are careful they won't get dented, and you can't break 'em." Mrs.Bell examined the case and all its fittings with eager attention.
"It's the prettiest thing I ever saw," she said.

"Look, Diantha; here's for soup, here's for water--or wine if you want, all your knives and forks at the side, Japanese napkins up here.

Its lovely, but--I should think--expensive!" Mrs.Weatherstone smiled.

"I've had twenty-five of them made.

They cost, with the fittings, $100 apiece, $2,500.